English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 67
So he dashed the bowl to the ground, and said: “Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.”
Who acts: Childe, sup, bit, Burd · What happens: dash, say, swallow, bite, be · To what, where: bowl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, sup, bit, Burd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dashed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dashed | nsubj |
| 3 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bowl | det |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dashed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dashed | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallow | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallow | punct |
| 14 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sup | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sup | det |
| 16 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallow | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 swallow | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 swallow | nsubj |
| 19 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bite | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 bite | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bit | det |
| 23 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bite | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bite | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bite | nsubj |
| 26 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 swallow | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 free | punct |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 free | mark |
| 29 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 free | nsubj |
| 30 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Burd | flat |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 free | cop |
| 32 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 free | amod |
| 33 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 swallow | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallow | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | Childe | the bowl | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Childe not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swallow in a quote | future | a sup | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bite in a quote | future | a bit | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Burd | free property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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